Spent some time today feeding all the plants with fish emulsion (an organic fertalizer). Realized I hadn’t put up any pictures, but the cabbages are…
Work is Progressing on the New Garden Beds
I used the last of our first 50 2×4’s and have completed 2 beds, and 2/3rds of a 3rd bed so far. They are looking…
New Garden Beds
We have made the decision to transition to organic production. Upon research, I found out that the garden beds that I so proudly painted and…
What a pretty peahen!
One of the things I do is take all of my trimmings, weeds, veggies that just aren’t worth selling or eating and ride my 3…
Planting Lettuce starts in Coir & Worm Castings
This is a new process for me. I’ve planted many seeds using coconut coir, but they didn’t thrive very well. I did some research, and…
Sometimes, farming is about cleaning
Today I used a scrub brush, dishsoap and water and scrubbed about 1 million…ok maybe 100 pots. Rinsed them, then soaked them for a few…
Picking Hot Peppers
We have had some rainy weather here in the southwest, and the rain finally stopped long enough to pick some hot peppers! I will have…
Finished filling our garden bed today
Today we finally got all the rest of the dirt in the box, and I set up the irrigation and added it to the timer.…
Greg and I hauled more dirt for our new Garden Beds
I hauled about 6 wheelbarrow loads by myself, then got my husband to help hauling 6 more. We almost have our 2nd new 40′ bed…
Harvesting Saffron
Harvested today my first two saffron flowers. So far we only have 2 bloomed and four more getting ready to bloom. Worked perfectly using a…